Sharad In BP sequel-Epi 1

Loved the whole storyline except for the inter-religious angle, dear. Not a good idea. The sequel would either never see the light of day, or it would be hauled off air faster than BP and with less reasons given.

Inter-caste romances and marriages are fine, but an inter-religious romance for the lead pair has the production house and channel walking on eggshells so much that they can't actually focus on developing the characters or the story.

They tried it on Sony back when it had a lot of successful serials. The series I'm talking about was 'Aisa Des Hai Mera'. The heroine, born of a Punjabi Hindu father and a British Christian mother, was herself Christian, overtly so. But it wasn't getting good reactions, so they had her become more and more Hindu in manner and custom.

Even on Colors series 'Jeevan Sathi', the very show logo of which was the couple's hands and the Christian and Hindu marriage symbols, despite the popularity of the pair of Neal and Viraj, Viraj was finally married and went on to fall in love with a fellow Hindu Ishwar. The twists leading to that, however, were superbly written and executed.

Good reactions from people in charge and influential and powerful politically are more important than good reactions from the viewing audience.

A series can chug on with low TRPs, but not with antagonizing people who have votebanks to consider.

In a movie or series with an inter-religious marriage, even if neither of the couple convert, the religious community of the fictional girl start screaming their heads off in real life, making life hell for the channel and production house.

BP has had enough problems with controversies already. Let's try to keep the sequel absolutely controversyfree. It has a better chance of getting on air.

Originally posted by: oh-wow

well we need Ekta or Sharad or some channel to read it to give us a sequel

but here.....for your reading pleasure...

Supriya is a Muslim girl, fiercely independent........ the story is set in Gujarat.......

(with this the stage and the landscape is already
set.....what with nano here....and gujarat riots.....the masala is getting pounded!!!!)

He has taken over the reins of the company from his father who died two or so years
ago......

....Supriya has taken over from her brother who died in an accident in the workshop
......he had taken it over from his father who died some time ago.....
....she has a bhabi with two very young children, a younger brother and a mother....
....who runs a highway side tea stall.

TO BE CONTINUED

Originally posted by: oh-wow

You may be so right.......but it was more fun to ready your analysis of this situation across
TV channels & serials.......I used to wonder why they showed a soap where a fair girl is
shown black......now it makes sense .....that was the only safe storyline they could
come up with.......without crossing anyone.....hehehehehehe

I had not even heard of these serials .....'Jeevan Sathi' ?.....i thought Colors was
a new channel .......and they have already chopped or churned out so many shows??

oh well...